Akitake Kōno

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1911-10-08 (67 years old)

Deathday

1978-03-17

Place of Birth

Nagasaki, Japan

Akitake Kōno

Biography

Akitake Kōno (河野 秋武 Kōno Akitake, 8 October 1911 – 17 March 1978) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1943 to 1973. Kōno started acting with the Zenshinza theater troupe before joining the Toho studio in 1942. Mostly a character actor, he appeared in films by directors such as Akira Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi as well on television.

Acting

1943

Sanshiro Sugata

as Yoshima Dan

1952

お洒落狂女

as Togawa Kankyo

1945

Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

as Genzaburo Higaki

1955

Taira Clan Saga

as Heiroku

1964

Adventures of Zatoichi

as Intendant Gorota Kajima

1958

The Outsiders

as Doctor Kimura

1952

1953

Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha

as 是枝七郎左衛門

1953

Hana no shôgai

as 多田一郎

1955

振袖釼法

as 大導寺平馬

1955

Ejima and Ikushima

as 奥山好竹院

1959

1957

The Temptress and the Monk

as Medicine seller

1944

The Most Beautiful

as Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited)

1947

Snow Trail

as Honda

1944

Battle Troop

as Murakami

1945

Duel at Yagyu Valley

as Shinohara Samanosuke

1960

The Man of Seven Faces

as Jukichi Arao

1956

Satan's Town

as Sasaki

1950

1961

寛美の三等社員

as Division chief Sawamura

1959

Sword of Vision

as Okubo Hikozaemon

1953

The Cannery Boat

as Shibaura

1966

Flame and the Code

as Sadamitsu Gonda

1973

Miyamoto Musashi

as Kimura Sukekuro

1958

1964

Ken

as Kiuchi

1958

Souls in the Moonlight II

as Momozo Zenriki

1956

Love is Lost

as Yoshizo

1967

Three Gamblers

as Toyomatsu Inoue

1947

Actress

as Haruyoshi Kobayashi

1954

The Last Women

as Makimura

1961

Restoration Fire

as Heikichi

1966

Japan's Most Chivalrous

as Gennosuke Shioya

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The Gion Tempest

as Sakakibara

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